[Toolserver-announce] multi-maintainer tools

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, in order to increase collaboration between users on the Toolserver, and discourage single-person ownership of tools, we would like to introduce multi-maintainer tools on the Toolserver. these are similar to stable server projects, except there is no need to migrate to a new server; they run on the normal Toolserver. (the flip side of this is that problems on the normal Toolserver will affect multi-maintainer tools as well as normal tools.) a multi-maintainer tool runs under a dedicated Unix account, which its maintainers may access using 'sudo'. only one tool is allowed to run under such an account, and the account may not be used for anything else. eventually we plan to let users create these tools automatically; until then, they must be created manually by an admin. if you would like a multi-maintainer tool project, please file a request in the TS project in JIRA, listing: * your Toolserver username * the account name for the tool * the account names of any other users who should have access. it may take a few days to create the account, since we're still working out exactly how these tools will work. if you like, you may create a multi-maintainer tool with only a single maintainer. this will allow you to add additional maintainers later. at the moment, there is no advantage to using a multi-maintainer tool; however, we are looking at ways to encourage users to create such tools, and discourage tools owned by a single user. - river.